I was just going to reply in a similar way. I read that and thought: They will BECOME propaganda machines? Riiight…
Honestly, I don’t see how any state managed educational system, or any educational system controlled by any powerful entity, wouldn’t eventually slip in propaganda. If Coca-Cola ran an educational system, I’m sure it’d be increasingly full of subtle and not so subtle propagandas that Coke favors.
I suppose best we can do is argue/decide which “propaganda” are acceptable/useful, and which are not.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have a kid in preschool and honestly I dread the “pledge of allegiance talk” more than most other common “uncomfortable parent conversations”
“Yeah this is bullshit but you WILL be ostracized if you don’t join in. I realized this in middle school and just had to go through the motions for the next 6 years or so but I felt like I was taking crazy pills.”
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think it helps that, at least by high school, it wasn’t even something (normal) kids argued about. Just another annoying school policy, like when they put “Evolution is Just A Theory” label on biology textbooks and kicked a star athlete off the basketball team for having a boyfriend.